Google’s John Mueller recently addressed the use of the blockquote element, saying it’s not treated in any special way.

As you know, Google is making efforts to update their GoogleBot to crawl the more modern web. We reported it about it last week. But that bothered at least one SEO who complained that they worked on all these workarounds and now Google is going to ditch those workaround when this new GoogleBot goes live.

In honor of it’s fifth anniversary, LinkedIn has released a revamped edition of  The Sophisticated Marketer’s Guide to LinkedIn . The eBook features a powerful array of digital marketing smarties, each who shared their insights and practical advice on how to get the most out of LinkedIn—from optimizing your profile to expanding your network.  The TopRank Marketing team was privileged to work with LinkedIn team to identify, engage, and gather fresh insights from these brightest marketing minds

Facebook has been spotted testing a redesigned version of the news feed which also includes stories. The post Facebook Tests Integrating Stories into the News Feed by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Cyrus Shepard posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs what is better to do when pruning old content, to 301 redirect or 404 the page. That is if the page cannot be updated to have better content, what do you do? Either (a) Noindex/Remove (noindex, 404, 410) or (b) 301 Redirect to a relevant, better page.

Google’s indexing bug was resolved last week, but Search Console is still recovering.

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Has your site received a manual action by Google? Here’s how to request reconsideration for your site. The post Manual Actions & How to Write Reconsideration Requests That Work by @schachin appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Does your business still have a fax number? I’ll be honest, I spend about $10 per month to have one and I use it maybe once every several months. Did you know Google can list the fax number in your local knowledge panel

Content pollution is real.